WTOP-TV
9 Publicity Photo(Photo
Donated by Jack Maier)Click
on the image to see a larger image.

A
10/19/86 Washington Post article by Martie Zad titled, "The
Thing Was, You Could Do No Wrong... Because No One Knew Exactly What Was
Right" states that WTOP-TV
9 staffer Bob Dalton subbed for Pick when he was away; playing the role
of "Bob Dandy".

"Dalton
recalled arriving at the station one day with a terrible hangover and being
pressed into the Bob Dandy role because Temple couldn't make it. Among
the show's commercials was one for Bosco chocolate syrup that called for
him to lick the spoon and say 'This is so-ooo good.' Dalton said
it was the closest he ever came to getting ill on the set."

Before
gaining popularity via his TV show, Pick recordedsome
authentic folk songs for the Library of Congressthat
would later be released on phonograph record.

Pick's
son, Dr. L. Parker Temple III, states:"This
is thefirst
of his records, before he had adopted the cowboypersona.
As I recall, it was on RCA Victor's X-Brand. I
think it's his best record, since it includes moreof his
more serious railroading and hobo songs."--According
to An Introductory Note by Duncan Emrich, Chief, Folklore Section, Library
of Congress: "Pick Temple first recorded his
hand-me-down traditional songs for the folklore collections of the Library
of Congress in 1948."--"He
wandered into our offices with his guitar quite as casually as though he
were cocking his heels on his own front porch. Said he heard about our
work. Would we like to record some songs?"-(Images
Donated by Jack Maier)

Hear
Pick Sing a Verse of One Song and One Other Entire Song From His Library
of Congress Record at Kidshow
Klips

Pick
went back into the recording studio around 1961 to perform more folk songs
for another phonograph record (below).---"The
Pick of the Crop"; Pick's Prestige International Album.(Click
on image to see a larger image.)--(Images
Donated by Jack Maier)

Before
going on TV, Pick worked 17+ years as an economic statistician in the Business
Division of the U.S. Census Bureau. After leaving TV, he took another federal
job in the Public Affairs Section of the "Office of Economic Opportunity". --Pick
received this commendation from Hubert Humphreyin 1972
upon his retirement to Sun City, Arizona. --